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In 2012, Fives FCB celebrated its 80 years

of activities into the cement and mineral

grinding industries. At the same time, the

Fives Group celebrated its bicentenary

emphasizing the 200 years history and

contribution of the Group into the indus-

trial development. In 2012, Fives FCB

worked actively to carry on its develop-

ment and got the opportunity to achieve

significant realizations.

The taking over of CLE, the cement division

of group Technip France, widens our ins-

talled base and strengthens the position of

Fives FCB in the After Sales Services mar-

ket. The acquisition of the process filter

technology from Fives Solios (another Fives

Group company) gives us the possibility

to develop our own filtration system

solutions based on TGT™ & SONAIR™

filters

The signature of a license agreement

with FCT ACTech to market and supply a

Continuous On Stream Mineral Analyser

(COSMA™) extends the expertise of Fives

FCB into process control & optimization,

expanding our range of solutions to

improve performances of burning and

grinding plants.

The various equipment orders and plant

upgrade contracts secured in 2012 under-

line the efficiency and performance of our

technologies as well as the engineering

and process expertise of our teams.

By offering some of the most efficient,

innovative and sustainable technologies

available in the market, Fives FCB is

constantly strengthening its position of

key supplier in crushing, grinding, pyro-

process, filtration and alternative fuels

applications for the global and regional

cement producers.

alain Cordonnier, CEO

Fives FCb

Fives FCB strengthens its market position with the acquisition of CLE, the Cement Division of Group Technip France

For more than 40 years, the CLE Division of Group Technip France has been a recognized force in the cement industry, and has comple-ted installation and revamping projects for many cement producers.More recently, it has been involved in major revamping projects in France, Poland, Spain, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey and Brazil. The many projects delivered by the CLE Division of Group Technip France worldwide have now

joined the installed base of Fives FCB, contri-buting to nearly 80 additional reference sites around the world. This acquisition not only strengthens the presence of Fives FCB in many of its existing regions, but at the same time enables to extend the range of services it of-fers the cement industry, especially in burning line upgrades, maintenance services and spare parts. It is also opening up new opportunities in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas.

Driving progress

In july 2012, Fives FCb acquired the business portfolio of CLE, the Cement Division of Group Technip France. This acquisition marks a new stage in the development and growth of Fives FCb, and makes a major contribution to

strengthening its position in the Services market.

FIVES FCB GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, the newsletter of Fives FCB – Fives FCB – 50 rue de Ticléni – B.P. 376 – 59666 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex – France – Phone: +33 (0)3 20 43 77 77 – Director of publication: Alain Cordonnier – Editor: Jean-Pierre Cornille – Editorial committee: Samir Bekkaoui, Jacques-Olivier Bou, Gilles Cojean, Hervé Cordier, Jean-Pierre Cornille, Serge Jorget – Writers: Hélène Bachellerie, Chrystelle Lucidarme – Thanks for their collaboration: Vincent Bernard, Gwennaëlle Biausque, Yan Huerre, David Kotrys, Maïlys Le Calvez, Bertrand Licour, Olivier Vanlerenberghe – Graphics and layout: Christophe Cocquet – Printing: Une Impression – 5 rue Jean Moulin – 02880 Crouy – ISSN 2106-9883. 200 copies printed.

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F ives FCb, a subsidiary of the Fives Group - which celebrated its bicentenary in 2012 - has its own anniversary this year, marking 80 years of involvement in the cement industry: a perfect opportunity to look back over the history of a Group that has always led the way in all its business sectors.

Born out of the merger between Cail and Fives-Lille, both of which had nearly 100 years of history already, the Fives Group has always adapted successfully to the technological and organizational step changes that have marked three industrial revolutions over the last two centuries. Its long history is studded with many remarkable achievements, including:• Steam locomotives in Brazil, Russia and

China, railroad operating concessions in Brazil and Argentina, and the first steam and electric locomotives to be used in France• Bridges, viaducts and other structures

(including the Boieldieu Bridge in Rouen, iron bridges and viaducts for the Moscow/Ninji-Novgorod line in Russia, metal bridges for the Lausanne-Berne line in Switzerland, the Lafayette Bridge in Lyon and the Tancarville Bridge in Normandy)• Sugar plants in Brazil, Argentina, Cuba

and Russia• Construction of the Alexandre III Bridge

in Paris, the metal framework of the Orsay train station and the elevators for the Eiffel Tower built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900.

Having become the Compagnie de Fives-Lille (name issued from a suburb of Lille in France), the company later changed its name to Fives-

2013 also marked 80 years of the Fives Group involvement in the cement industry, which began in 1933 with the acquisition of Etablissements Dalbouze & Brachet, a French company specialized in cement plant equipment. The Group’s cement division expanded significantly during the postwar years, and in 1958 a major contract was signed for the construction of the world’s largest cement plant (5,700 tpd) at Atchinsk in Siberia.Since July 2000, the Fives Group cement division has been managed by Fives FCB, the

Lille-Cail and Fives-Cail-Babcock following mergers and acquisitions. Finally renamed Fives in 2007, the Group is now an interna-tional reference in industrial engineering: Fives

Group company dedicated to the cement and mineral grinding industries. The company has all the in-house resources required to manage tailored projects, from the supply of process equipment of its own design to the delivery of turnkey projects for complete cement plants.Thanks to the significant proportion of its revenue applied to Research & Development for more than 20 years, Fives FCB is really well positioned to offer innovative technologies that are amongst the most efficient in the market in terms of energy consumption and polluting emissions reduction.

is recognized by the world’s major industrial players for its innovative technologies and its competence in executing large-scale interna-tional projects in the markets it serves.

FIvES, 200 years of industrial progress

Holcim Apasco cement plant in Hermosillo (Mexico) - 2011

Alexandre III Bridge in Paris - 1899Elevators for the Eiffel Tower (France) - 1889

Construction of the metal framework of the

Orsay train station in Paris (France) 1898-1900

Part of a rotary kiln for a cement plantin Abu-Dhabi (U.A.E) - 1960

Manufacturing of 66 express locomotives for Brazilian railways - 1952

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EQuIPMENT & OPTIMISaTION FOCuS

On May 8th, 2012, Fives FCB was awarded by CIMAR, a Joint-venture company between Queiroz Galvao & Cornelio Brennand groups, a contract for the supply of a new slag cement grinding plant located in Sao Luis, state of Maranhão, in Brazil.

This order concerns the supply of process equipment of the grinding plant and includes:• one Fives FCB ball mill with two compartments

fitted with predrying chamber (installed power 3,400 kW),

In 2012, Fives FCB was granted a contract by Lafarge for the manufacture, engineering studies and erection supervision of a 3.75- meter grinding mill shell with inspection door and internal liner to replace the damaged and cracked cement grinding shell at its Ndola site in Zambia.In order to measure the precise dimensions of the shell part to be replaced onto the grinding mill, Fives FCB made a preliminary

The TGT™ and SONAIR™ process filters that Fives FCB now offers either as standalone equipment, part of turnkey projects or part of revamping projects, enable its customers to benefit from the experience gained by the Fives Group in more than 130 installations over a 30-year period.This significant development extends Fives FCB expertise in process core functions and its ability to develop gas pro-cessing solutions to meet technological and regulatory evolution.The advanced technology used in TGT™ filters offers many benefits in terms of reliability and ope-rational performance:• Filter bags lifetime is extended as a result

of the ‘soft landing’ cleaning phenomenon thanks to the patented technology used in IAP (Integrated Action Piston) valves,

I n 2012, Fives FCb was granted a license by its sister company, Fives Solios, to extend its range of products and services into Process Filtration market, thus strengthening its ability to offer increasingly efficient, innovative,

comprehensive and integrated solutions.

• one third generation Fives FCB TSv™ classifier 3200 HF,• one SONAIR™ type Fives FCB process filter

(2,000 m²).These facilities will produce 80 tph of CEM II-E (cement with 30% slag) at 3800 Blaine.After the contract signed with Holcim (Brasil) SA for the construction of a new 4,500 tpd production line for its cement plant in Barroso, state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), this order confirms the ability of Fives FCB to comply with the expanding Brazilian cement market.

site inspection to achieve:• geometric measurements of the shell

deformation,• sampling and ultrasound testing of the

potential cutting zones,• accurate geometrical statement of the

building due to its narrowness in order to find the optimum dismantling and erection solutions.

This order was placed following the expertise

conducted by Fives FCB in 2011 to estimate the work to be done upon the grinding mill.By awarding Fives FCB with a work package including expertise, sizing studies, equipment supply, erection studies and supervision, Lafarge has opted for a comprehensive solution that optimizes the process of work preparation and supervision while shortening the shut-down of the plant.

CIMAR (BRASIL)Contract for the supply of a new slag cement grinding plant

LAFARGE (ZAMBIA)Upgrading of the cement grinding mill of Ndola plant

Filtration: Fives FCB extendsits range of equipment oncore process with TGT™ andSONAIR™ filters

• The innovative design enables the use of very long bags to provide greater capacity with smaller filter footprint,• Low-pressure cleaning means a reduced

cleaning frequency and avoids dust re-entrainment, thereby reducing the emission level (< 5mg / Nm3), • ‘On-line’ cleaning sequence enables a better

process stabilization thanks to a constant pressure drop,• The modularity of the

design and its compart-ment partitioning facilitate respectively installation and maintenance.

Its high performance makes the TGT™ filter a highly reliable equipment complying with the most stringent environmental constraints as illustrated by many references already completed in North and Central America. ■

EQuIPMENT & uPGraDING

The TGT™ process filter: the pioneering low pres-sure drop pulse jet bag filter

COSMa™, the Conti-nuous On Stream Mineral analyzerIn November 2012, Fives FCB signed a license agreement with FCT ACTech for the marketing and supply of its continuous XRD analyzing system known as COSMA™. Installed either at the burning line or the grinding plant, the COSMA™ system provides on-line realtime automated trend monitoring and analysis of the mineral phases of all types of materials, from clinker to cement and minerals.The COSMA™ system can be installed in the following applications:• At kiln level, it improves burning line ope-ration by providing a continuous control of the clinker phases (with shortened delay after kiln outlet), and therefore of burning quality (measurement of Free Lime content)

• Installed on one or more grinding mills, it enables the optimization of the cement quality by adjusting process parameters for an improved control of hemihydrates production (gypsum states) and of changes of recipes.

When associated with a LASER granulo-meter, it also provides real-time control of separator speed to achieve optimum cement quality.This new technology enables Fives FCB to extend its expertise in process control optimization, and to propose to clients improved burning line and grinding plant performances to reduce operating costs of these plants.

IMSaT CEPrOCIM ENGINEErING, SNEF group (Moldavia)On November 14th 2012, Fives FCB signed an order with Imsat Ceprocim Engineering Company, a member of SNEF group, for the supply of a TSv™ 3000 HF type dynamic classifier and a water injection system to equip an existing ball mill of the Rezina cement plant in Moldavia (Lafarge group).The three ball mills installed in Rezina cement plant are currently operating in open circuit. The equipment supplied by Fives FCB will allow the plant to increase the produced cement quality and also to produce some new high quality cement types while allowing substantial electrical energy savings thanks to the conversion in close circuit of one of the ball mills.

In January and March 2012, Fives FCB conduc-ted some expertise, alignment and machining works on the No. 1 and No. 2 kilns of the Tioxide Europe SI site in Spain. Based on this audit, Fives FCB was awarded the contract to upgrade the kiln No. 1, including:

• The replacement of the upstream pier supporting shell, fitted with its tyre• The supply of a new floating shims system

designed by Fives FCB• The replacement of the whole rollers and

wearing parts on all piers.

Complete replacement of the upstream pier was completed in June.The second phase of work, which involved replacing the roller stations shaft and supporting bearing for the other piers, was completed at the end of 2012.

TIOXIDE EUROPE SL - HUNTSMAN GROUP (SPAIN) Fives FCB’s expertise for kiln revamping

Holcim-Apasco - TGTTM filters installed on the burning line at the 3.500 tpd Hermosillo cement plant in Mexico